Abstract
Acute esophageal necrosis or black esophagus is an uncommon clinical entity, diagnosed at the upper gastrointestinal endoscopy with the presence of strikingly black necrotic esophagus. Very often no definite etiology will be identified even though a large list of potential associations has been postulated. Upper gastrointestinal bleeding is the most common clinical presentation, others being epigastric pain, retrosternal chest discomfort and dysphagia. Only about a hundred cases of acute esophageal necrosis have been described in medical literature till this date. We report a case of acute esophageal necrosis in an elderly female who had presented with hematemesis.
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Publication details
- DOI
- 10.5001/omj.2014.79
- Journal
- Oman Medical Journal
- Publisher
- Oman Medical Specialty Board
- Open access
- Gold open access
Cite this article
APA 7
Zacharia, G. S., Sandesh, K., & Ramachandran, T. (2014). Acute Esophageal Necrosis: An Uncommon Cause of Hematemesis. Oman Medical Journal. https://doi.org/10.5001/omj.2014.79
MLA 9
Zacharia, George Sarin, et al. "Acute Esophageal Necrosis: An Uncommon Cause of Hematemesis." Oman Medical Journal, 2014. https://doi.org/10.5001/omj.2014.79.
Chicago (author–date)
Zacharia, George Sarin, K. Sandesh, and TM Ramachandran. 2014. "Acute Esophageal Necrosis: An Uncommon Cause of Hematemesis." Oman Medical Journal. https://doi.org/10.5001/omj.2014.79.
Harvard
Zacharia, G. S., Sandesh, K. and Ramachandran, T. (2014) 'Acute Esophageal Necrosis: An Uncommon Cause of Hematemesis', Oman Medical Journal. doi:10.5001/omj.2014.79.
Vancouver
Zacharia GS, Sandesh K, Ramachandran T. Acute Esophageal Necrosis: An Uncommon Cause of Hematemesis. Oman Medical Journal. 2014. doi:10.5001/omj.2014.79
IEEE
G. S. Zacharia, K. Sandesh, and T. Ramachandran, "Acute Esophageal Necrosis: An Uncommon Cause of Hematemesis," Oman Medical Journal, 2014, doi: 10.5001/omj.2014.79.